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we got a starlink beta kit that's right

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internet from the stars baby

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now we already did an unboxing on ShortCircuit but this thing is quite

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literally going to change the world so we felt like it merited a deeper dive

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into how starlink works what we can expect from global broadband satellite

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internet i mean that is some wicked heavy serious stuff

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and hey we're still Linus tech tips so

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obviously we are gonna pull up a gaming

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i think the majority of you would agree that your life would be very different

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if your internet access disappeared or became cripplingly unreliable or

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expensive if you live near a metropolitan center

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you'll likely have a variety of speed and service options to pick from but as

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of 2017 50 million us homes only had a

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single isp option for 25 megabit service

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or none at all with 5 million unable to

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get anything faster than 3 megabit per second which no

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isn't enough unless the year is 2005. i mean i get it

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building and maintaining a massive network of cables and switches and fiber

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isn't a small or cheap task but legal

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hurdles and other roadblocks like exclusivity agreements for telephone

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pole usage make what should in theory be a competitive free market not

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competitive or free at all i'm looking at you delta cable so no competition

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means the prices go up and as for the service well

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you bend over and take it because well something is better than nothing oh wait

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we're it aren't we dang it i guess you have to deal with

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our packages enter starlink i'm not always a fan of elon

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musk's hyperbolic marketing but what starlink is doing is exactly as cool and

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important as he says it is this is about bringing the next billion users online

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people that don't have the same access to a robust and unrestricted data

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infrastructure of course satellite internet isn't a new idea the

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problem is that previous services relied on smaller constellations of larger more

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cumbersome satellites with very limited capacity so speeds were low and prices

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were very high spacex and competitors

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like amazon's project kuiper and the uk's oneweb are taking a different

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approach deploying multitudes of much smaller more advanced satellites

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this should allow for much faster speeds greater coverage and

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how much are we paying for this 100 a month with no data no data cap that's no

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data cap it's pricey it's not horrible it's less than what i pay for my

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workshop that's fair all right let's get it set up first you

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gotta protect your noggin with an LTT beanie LTT Store.com next

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holy there it is you unpack your 500

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starter kit and while this enormous box might look a little

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daunting there actually isn't much in here

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dish mast assembly tripod base wi-fi router

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modem and a PoE injector to power it all that's it

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oh and by the way this is really important guys this power supply over

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here this is not your grandpa's 30 watt

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PoE injector if you have an existing power over

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Ethernet switch it wouldn't deliver nearly the 90 watts that the dish

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requires and if for whatever reason you were to plug this adapter into other PoE

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equipment you already own you would have a very bad time the 2c thickness of this

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cable should be all you need to know about it

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finally you'll need to set up your receiver somewhere with a clear view of

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the sky to do that get comfortable

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wait for someone on your staff to haul it to the roof of your office by

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climbing up and down the access ladder half a dozen times well you have a

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little nap then have him or her plug it in for you

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when that's done it'll boot up search for satellites and orient itself toward

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the best one a little hand shaky shake takes place

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then the satellite you connect to will in turn connect to one of dozens of

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starlink ground stations giving you a high speed low latency link with no

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contractors required but is it any good just want to make sure people know

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there's no smoke no mirrors oh god this cable is well

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whatever the people trust me it's it's starlinked this is it call and set up

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everything up till now this is my first space internet my first space

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web page and i think we all know where i'm going

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that wasn't bad

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that wasn't bad like we're not just talking text web pages

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here we're talking like

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look at these pictures loading in it says rich

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rich multimedia well i mean it's something it's something that's freaking

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cool i want to send a tweet let's see how long it takes me to send a tweet okay so

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we can also connect to it because it's got like a wi-fi hotspot i can also

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connect to it with my phone LTT starbanger really does that even mean

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like the witcher in space like i know what it means stop gesturing i'm

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sending a tweet okay here we go so you guys you guys are gonna know how

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long the delay is on our videos now sending this

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from space to space and back

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that's right that's where i went thanks elon daddy

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elon obviously we're going pretty easy on it so far i mean pictures

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okay we're going we're going video here youtube.com okay

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okay there's a lot of thumbnails not bad now

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that's a little slower than your hard linked broadband internet connection if

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you got like 100 150 megabit down

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but like it's usable you know

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this is not impeding my experience yeah

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i can tell i can tell the images are coming down a little slower but like

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okay let's click on what looks like a really good video okay uh this guy's

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handsome nice beard nice tube LTT Store you know

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wow that ad have you ever noticed ads load a lot faster than the actual video

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wow that was instant not only was playback

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instant but we are actually getting you can actually see the video chunks loading

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i'm at 4k imagine for a second

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going from barely broadband or not even having broadband

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to this kind of internet experience unreal i mean i remember this i lived

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out on the boondocks and like i had friends that went to my high school that

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had broadband and could go on napster

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and download music or whatever and for me it was like yeah we only have one

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phone line so i can use the internet like maybe half an hour a day and like i

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can't even get anything done in that time when we got broadband i used up my

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own allowance money for the drop from the poll at the street because that's

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how much it meant to me i was like 14

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and it it was a game changer i got a cd burner i made mixed cds for people i was

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the cool kid just kidding about that last part but everything else up until then was true

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yeah no pull no drop and well that's essentially what the price of the kit is

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that's your pull draw now i i mean i got to push it

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i want to push it i don't want to just watch one line of tech tips video i want

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to have the whole Linus tech tips experience you know

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come on more Linus tech tips why is it recommending me anything other than

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Linus tech tips all right ijustine we'll watch ijustine collab with Linus tech

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tips big lineus tech tips fan you know okay let's do some scrubbing scrub

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because we ain't no scrub but we got to scrub around you know what i'm saying

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okay give it a sec remember we're just hitting it pretty hard

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that one's going that one's going that one's going this one needs a second

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these are all running at 4k now you

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might think if our internet is so fast we can do four 4k streams simultaneously

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like that's the same as if we were watching 8k video

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that it's weird that those thumbnails loaded in so slowly or that if we scroll

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down there's this delay when we're loading the comments

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let's do a quick speed test here and i'm gonna talk about that look wait okay

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we're not saying it's gonna be like perfect or anything wow we actually like do not have a

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connection hold on a sec got a cloud up there right that doesn't

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happen yeah no no that's that's not actually the thing

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you might say we've got cloud strife if you do run into trouble

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and powering it off and powering it back on doesn't immediately kick it back in there is a companion app and colin's

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actually running a speed test on it now so maybe it's kicked back in let's go

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have a look and we're back there we go spacex

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starlink that's correct that's what we expect

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let's see what we get wow 138 megabit per second down and 23 up

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wow i mean i shouldn't be surprised or anything we were playing back four 4k

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streams at once but 27 milliseconds for ping

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let's talk about that i mean it's not bad it's way better than dial-up but

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compared to even adsl and especially

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fiber you're going to notice that difference in latency because remember

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guys it's not 27 milliseconds for like

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every complete transaction it's 27 milliseconds on every transaction and

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once you have a whole bunch of them queued up it can add up so that's why

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loading a video no problem loading thumbnails pretty good loading something

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like a whole page of comments you might start to run into a little bit of

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degraded experience still though come on

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over the air or in some cases there's no air but

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don't worry about that to make that work spacex needs not hundreds not thousands

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but even tens of thousands of satellites

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currently they're approved to put 12 000 up there with an additional 30 000 in

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discussion but with a catch the fcc has mandated that spacex get at

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least half of their constellation in orbit within six years with full

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deployment inside of nine else they risk losing their dedicated radio bands

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this first deployment of twelve thousand then will live in orbit at three

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different shells of altitudes

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1150 kilometers above the earth's surface with each serving a different

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purpose the farther away the satellite is from the earth the wider the area it can

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serve but it comes at a cost of increased latency you know speed of

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light and all that starlink will fly more sats at a lower

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orbit then to increase bandwidth and reduce lag in areas that need it the

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most while the high orbit sats can also act as backhaul links sending data

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between satellites the most recent launch of 10 of a new version of the

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starlink satellite on a rideshare mission also included laser links for

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inter-satellite communication so if a ground station isn't in the ideal

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spot data can be passed along through other better oriented sets the lower the

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orbit the more atmospheric drag a satellite will experience though that

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slows it down and reduces its altitude

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this can be corrected with the same on-board thrusters that the sats used to

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avoid collisions with other objects in space but there's a limit to that so when the

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sat finally reaches the end of its lifetime in four to five years it'll use

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any remaining fuel to push itself out of orbit to

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a fiery death burning itself up completely in the earth's atmosphere

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that last part is really key to avoiding a kessler syndrome event a theoretical

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scenario where the amount of space pollution crap in low earth orbit is so

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high that collisions between objects could create a cascading effect where

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one satellite smashes into another which smashes into another and then everyone's

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having a real bad time until the entire orbital plane is too dangerous to

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continue to use as for how likely that is take a look at this visualization

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if we turn on the debris layer however it becomes pretty clear that we need to

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be very careful what we leave in orbit any one of those pieces of junk could

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take out a critical piece of orbital infrastructure as of writing this video

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there are a little over a thousand starlink sats flying around up there and

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they aren't in a geostationary orbit so you can actually spot them moving across

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the sky at night you'll see them as a little train of lights flying across the

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sky which raises the question how can

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the dish on your roof stay stationary

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like we saw and still acquire the satellite even as it moves at seven and

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is a possibility but that would require much finer motor control as well as have

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a higher chance of failure so instead starlink uses what's called a phased

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array antenna instead of one big antenna there's an

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array of hundreds of tiny antennas across the whole surface of the dish we

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would show you ourselves but revealing them destroys the dish so

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this is not designed to be disassembled

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this clip of ken keter's tear down is going to have to do check his video out

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by the way we're going to have it linked below if you want to see some more starling gore the point is that by

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shifting the phase of each individual antenna just right the direction of the

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stacked up radio wave can be changed which is essentially electronic antenna

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steering this sort of tech is normally reserved for military applications or

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companies with deep pockets due to the high development cost i mean the fact

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that they are producing something so technologically advanced at a mass

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market scale and price is nothing short of astounding

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now thank you so much for your patience with all these technical details let's

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see how it gains i have a simple goal

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i want to get one headshot from space

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in cs go alright and

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i'm not going to settle for bot i want to headshot a real player

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i want to get a head shot from space i don't want to watch your stupid

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video watch again who would do that

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all right so what's our ping sixty-four million man i love how rock

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solid this ping is like when i was a kid i would have i would have killed to game

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at 64 milliseconds and consistency of

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ping is in some ways more important to the experience than the actual ping

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number one oh hi i see you

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no come on i got killed by tim hortons

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are you serious right now are they just shooting through the door

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okay so we're just oh okay oh it wasn't a head shot how could i miss that

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that was a bad time to reload i really am genuinely not very good at this game

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anybody over here oh hi come on show me your head no

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damn it okay i'm only going to try one more time one more time i'll try for headshot okay

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they got like markers in this game what does that even mean

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i don't even know oh come on

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you know what though it doesn't matter it is only game

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what matters is starlink and overall i

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am really impressed like yeah there's

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more latency than a terrestrial connection but it's manageable

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it's manageable and the idea of being able to get these

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Linus thanks for watching guys if you enjoy this kind of crazy next-gen

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